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Your Quotes by Maya Angelou
- If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
- The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
- I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother…
- Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine…
- Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting…
- Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to…
- The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and…
- Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and…
- During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything…
- If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you…
- The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may…
More Your Quotes
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach